The Moon is falling toward the Earth at this very moment. Compared to moving in a straight line in the direction it was ...
Earth, sun, moon: three objects in space whose interactions have a pretty big impact on our lives. Earth orbits the sun once a year, and it rotates on its axis about once a day (depending on your ...
The water column in the ocean created by the Moon's gravityThis is a conceptual diagram of idealized tides on a coast where ...
This image from NASA schematically illustrates the elliptical nature of our orbit about the sun (and the moon's orbit around the Earth), showing the points of aphelion and perihelion. Note that the ...